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Downward drifting Sticky Floors? - Evidence on the Development of Wage Inequality Among Foreigners in Germany

Ludsteck, Johannes; Lehmer, Florian - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

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Better safe than sorry? The effects of income risk, unemployment risk and the interaction of these risks on wages

Nagl, Wolfgang - European Regional Science Association - 2013

We examine whether income and unemployment risks are compensated by individual wages. Using a portfolio approach we show that the marginal income risk effect on wages is always positive whereas the marginal unemployment risk effect crucially depends on the income risk. The interaction effect...

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Sub-centres and Urban Inequality: A study on Social Equity in the Barcelona Metropolitan Region

Tresserra, Jaume Masip - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Much of the inequality literature has done a great deal of work to study national inequality. However, most people live in cities and their experience of inequality is shaped by their local and metropolitan environment. This fact implies that next to inequality in countries, local inequality is...

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The Russian Urban System in Transition: The View of New Economic Geography

Kauffmann, Albrecht - European Regional Science Association - 2013

including urban costs, it is shown that also increasing costs of freight transportation may give incentives to migration of …? Are migration flows correlated to changes in concentration of urban population? In the empirical investigation, population … urban units. On the regional level, demographic data (natural growth, matrices of urban and rural migration, external …

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How Immigration Reduced Social Capital in the US: 2005-2011

Freire, Tiago; Li, Xiaoye - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

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TOP TEAM DEMOGRAPHICS, INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: FINDINGS FROM ENGLISH FIRMS AND CITIES, 2008-9

Nathan, Max - European Regional Science Association - 2013

High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning …

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - European Regional Science Association - 2014

-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … persistent pattern of domestic migration towards central regions for this group. Children of immigrants born in Norway, education … and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to …

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*Trade Shocks** and Local Employment Multipliers: Evidence from France

Malgouyres, Clement - European Regional Science Association - 2013

In this paper, I develop a simple model of spatial equilibrium to investigate theoretically what determines the sign and magnitude of ``local multipliers' (defined as elasticity of employment in the non-tradable sector with respect to increase in employment in the tradable sector). I estimate...

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Earnings returns to education, experience and health: Evidence from EU-SILC

Pena-Boquete, Yolanda; Flores, Manuel - European Regional Science Association - 2013

Using individual-level panel data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (2007-2010) we explore to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience and health. The human capital literature suggests an...

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Immigration in times of crisis: to go or to stay?

Ródenas, Carmen; Martí, Monica; Kostova, Mirostava - European Regional Science Association - 2013

abroad statistics, we find little evidence of a mass exodus. Neither do we find sufficient evidence when we analyze migration … of the economic crisis on migration in Spain. It is a preliminary descriptive draft in which the basic lines of the main … changes regarding international immigrants are drawn. KEYWORDS: international migration, economic crisis, shadow economy. JEL …

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